The First Scattering

Conditional Commitments

An idea for funding organizations that don’t yet exist.

Jul 24 • Jason Hausenloy

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The Compute Verification Post

Notes from our nights and weekends

Jul 20 • Jason Hausenloy and Jasmine Li

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June 2026

Your Company Slack Is Not A Substitute For The Discourse

Thoughts on the brain drain into AI labs

Jun 29 • Jason Hausenloy

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A Breather in the Intelligence Explosion

What should Anthropic employees do while their work is on pause?

Jun 17 • Jason Hausenloy

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May 2026

Let’s Fund Some Huge Prizes In AI Safety

Preparing for the largest nonprofit windfall in history.

May 11 • Jason Hausenloy

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You Need A Theory of Victory

The cause of AI safety is losing. Consider asking: how can we win?

May 6 • Jason Hausenloy

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March 2026

10 Questions I'm Thinking About

AI disruption, alignment, verification, chips, and utopia — a working list.

Mar 19 • Jason Hausenloy

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January 2026

Why does China open source their AI models?

A curious approach to AI competition

Jan 30 • Jason Hausenloy and Sophie Kim

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Why LLMs help design bioweapons

It's probably error correction.

Jan 29 • Jason Hausenloy and Sophie Kim

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The US Might Not Want To MAIM

My understanding of Sophie's “positional incentives” critique.

Jan 19 • Jason Hausenloy

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MAIM is Probably Not a Good Deal for America

The Problem of Positional Incentives

Published on The Counterfactual • Jan 16

Moral Theories As Approximation Methods

And values as clusters in high-dimensional space

Jan 9 • Jason Hausenloy

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